Title:

Facing pages [126-127]

Date:

18640505-18640506

Early this morning received [order][to] rejoin our respectivs rgts when [we] found the [corp?] it was empty the corp had moved on. Followed after it and overtook it at ten AM. contiuned our march until noon Spot [illegible] service when we were greeted by a M.S.[ inelligible] served thin ones [illegible] made [illegible] two for a [illegible]. of 2PM. trimed and retreatee as the Enemy was [in] [our] M.S. [illegible] when we rejoined the main Army the Battle was raging fiercly double quickened on four miles and soon became engaged at 4 P.M. We are in the 2d_line of Battle. we are ordered to advance which [is] done with a hearty zeal. At five this morning we were roused from our [illegible] by the sig-nal gun ordering us to M.S.[llegible] on ad-vance we [illegible] and the rebels fly. But oh wat a M.S.[illlegible] of Bull surely my life is [illegible] [illegible]. Poor Cher Dixon M.S. [Illegible] shot through the heart. 5 mintues afer i came wounded in the shoulder and tood off the field after giving a sheel by [illegible] [for] some time. the Rebels dried over. Mine [illegible] me and [I] amd [illegible] [illegible] 8AM our [illegible][illegible] [illegible] the [government] [illegible]. and I [am] [illegible] [illegible] in the [illegible] lives [illegible] [illegible] kindly help to the [no] off the field. are stars but I am so faint and have to

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Collection:

Henry O. Nightingale diaries